On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Tom Lane wrote:
It's fairly painful to get single quotes into a psql variable;
AFAIK you have to do it like this:
\set proc_date '\'6/30/2004\''
Thanks that worked.
I figure I needed to escape the single quotes, but I had tried
\'6/30/2004\', which did not work.
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Francisco Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Trying the following simple sql file:
> \set proc_date 6/30/2004
> \echo Date is :proc_date
> select * from feeds where date = :proc_date limit 20;
That's going to expand to
select * from feeds where date = 6/30/2004 limit 20;
whereas what you need i
Trying the following simple sql file:
\set proc_date 6/30/2004
\echo Date is :proc_date
select * from feeds where date = :proc_date limit 20;
If I start psql with the "-a" option I see the output:
\set proc_date 6/30/2004
\echo Date is :proc_date
Date is 6/30/2004
select * from feeds where date = :
